Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 100a7130cbd88187…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-04 20:28:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 899ba60ce8193f42aef502c5fda8d19e SHA-1: 5b73e8be04de258a3d70e5082b189ef6bccf6835 SHA-256: 100a7130cbd881877cd4aef5e95878a5e02db626251101cf6a3fddd66cf3743f
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to multiple domains, many of which are hosted on disposable infrastructure or compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with malicious documents that often leverage embedded JavaScript for exploitation or redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9917

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=maths+online+worksheets+for+grade+3
    • http://el-master.ru/userfiles/file/55709342076.pdf
    • http://mas.vacations/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16109ba4478853---66830145660.pdf
    • http://www.emporiocaritaspisa.it/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d4291c0f682---dokilevagalixu.pdf
    • http://agmapure.com/upload/files/70510946515.pdf
    • http://natproperty.com/userfiles/files/faluvemanetebiraw.pdf
    • http://www.hotel-margherita.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609ff8cfb3a46---voxojavesatodawenixejo.pdf
    • http://beijingteye.com/upload/files/jetewukubilejelofewenu.pdf
    • http://math-talk.kr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/n40bknbldgf0o2eajuddjumr9b/rojekazulipilezi.pdf
    • https://suhrsmad.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076def97b562---razitonatupe.pdf
    • http://www.gyndoktors.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/linoteberudokaju.pdf
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b5b57a75044---xenedozirobi.pdf
    • https://mygoaltv.org/ipp/images/uploads/files/polova.pdf
    • http://monkey-do.net/userfiles/file/16798386064.pdf
    • http://movesearchesuk.com/userfiles/file/57927339804.pdf
    • http://kursadowicz.pl/Upload/file/62764655140.pdf
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/finevoxeb.pdf
    • http://marcelponjee.nl/ponjeefiles/file/44206542191.pdf
    • http://prinsart.ro/uploads/files/fekuwer.pdf
    • https://itexpertdog.com/upload/files/tuvotug.pdf
    • http://www.petersonassoc.com/emailimages/file/jurumelijigubiworudakaj.pdf
    • https://himalayanwanderer.com/himalayan/userfiles/files/99754573290.pdf
    • https://cms.blauraum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0aa28293a203a49deed92fc1f0e2cf78/masubuzume.pdf
    • http://www.morenoroofing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afeda231ea6---20938005148.pdf
    • http://sjhrz.com/images/upload/File/redaxifis.pdf
    • https://shayangroup.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ea5fd758457b0d4444c02873d25755a/73262761543.pdf
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609cc5c834541---27096077507.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d568.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD568 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed7f.bin
c291d204936eee5551f86534509c7838c23358db0116acf27ccf26d7aec74fad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED7F 10976 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000106cd.bin
976446f405575dece1313a1ffde2fbb3220aeccbd4bbfab69de2d20f78ac1f57
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CD 17056 bytes